THINGS ONE DOES AT THE OFFICE

Well, it was about time to show you apart of my work space. Here it is. Sweet chaos. Got me thinking, a part of my professional activity takes place around my work space. I write on the blog, edit photos, answer mails and plan my activities here. And in between, lots of side activities are also present in this room. Activities like eating mini pizzas/donuts/chocolate cookies/cakes /rarely a smoothie, scratching my back, working in my pajamas – a plus to having your work space at home – endless talks on the phone, procrastinating, acting stupid and sometimes even shaving.

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I am wearing a vintage blouse, a Zara skirt, Louboutin heels, a pearl bracelet and a Stella McCartney ring

Yep, the ladylike attitude went all down the drain. But you’ll forgive me because I have the brand new Braun Silk-epil 7 Wet&Dry and you can WIN it and make it yours! A?

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All you have to do is tell me your darkest secret when it comes to beauty procedures or stuff you do at the office that are not so “politically correct”, by leaving a comment here below. Like, I’m shaving my legs in the car in the morning, at the traffic light.

Now I organize myself better, but there was a time, when I worked in other place and during my afternoon shift i used to go to the saloon near my work and do my hair or my nails:(.
While I lived in London I used to go during my lunch breaks to the saloon for a blow dry.

I like to look very good every moment, so I do not find excuses for that, I just do it!:)

At the office??? Just work work work! HAHAHA, I was kidding! Sometimes make -up, if I don’t have the time for that at home before leaving the house; sometimes nail polishing; sometimes wash my hair and dry! Isn’t that cool?! Kisses, Ana and thanks for the opportunity!

Not so “Politically correct”? Well… I read beauty blogs and I am not allowed on the internet…. So, If I get caught you better send me the Braun Silk-epil 7 Wet&Dry to comfort me if I loose my job!
Sometimes I do my nails or my eyebrows. I have a tiny mirror in may bag for that all the time. And some nail polish in red! Red goes perfect with everything! :))

Dirtiest secret… I’ve stopped using soap or shower gels in the shower.
Most awesome secret… I use coffee grounds instead and olive oil on occasion, after shower. The grindy parts of the coffee exfoliate and clean the hell out of my skin. But the truly awesome part is that it also hydrates and leaves skin sooft, happy, without that dry, stingy sensation. Finally, I had a place to grab about this in public :))
And loove how olive oil nicely calms every inch of traumatized skin, after using my already aging, but still going strong Braun epilator.. wink wink

🙂 Funny! Usually I try to get ready at home but if I have to go after work elsewhere i retouch my makeup with a little blush and fix my hair. At work i use hand cream often since it is winter , i have to take care of my skin, though durind summer sometimes i cream-color my knee and elbows!

Maybe not the happiest perkiest beauty secret to be carried out in an office bathroom, however when you mentioned “office” this is what came to mind: how to deal with crying at the office. I have cried in the office bathroom a few times over work life and so many times over my troubles with men (weak and girly).
It was a bit more difficult when we only had one stall but you can do it.

So, I would go inside and cry over whatever it was that upset me. Don’t stay too long, it is not healthy, just do a quick round of crying and self pity and use toilet paper as a compress, wet with cold water, over your eyes to prevent them from swelling and going all red, good for the nose area as well, make sure to exit when nobody is there and then go for fresh cold air and listen to music. Always worked for me!

Bless me boss for I have sinned! It’s been two weeks since I have done my nails at the office, in the restroom. To be honest I have also fornicated with my eyebrows at times and that lipstick does not stay red from dawn till dusk (God knows I do not work the whole night shift!!).

I get my nails done all the time (French usually), pluck my eyebrows and of course I do my makeup every mourning .
In conclusion every thing that I do for myself in the work time is a bless for my inner beauty.

oh well, why do you make us do this? a? now i have to admit to some things that were secret! top secret! here goes: i do shave my legs at the traffic light, i do my nails at the office under the desk, i change my stockings at least once a day sometimes under the desk, when i do not have time. oh, and when i have an important meeting i draw a mol next to my mouth for good luck 🙂

i spend soooo many hours at the office i kinda made it my home. so my habits are pretty intimate: i have an alectric massager that i use when i get back ackes, when i’m almost the only one left i do some stretching, i do my nails of course, pick my eyebrows, shave. a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do!

you are crazy 🙂 this is an unusual contest 🙂 well i always have my tweezers and a mirror with me cause i have some wild eyebrows, so many and odd have been he places i have used them. Once i was on a date and when he went to the bathwoon i saw there were something wrong i panicked and did it under the table after pretending i droppped something.

oh i adore breaking the office rules, or shocking men in the the traffic. i once changed my outfot at the traffic light, the guy next to me was so shocked cause he saw me in my bra :))))) i think we should make it fun a hectic schedule can be pretty fun by doing crazy stuff like this

i have this beauty trick since teenage years: if i have a late night, either work or party or sex, and get the dark circles around my eyes, i grab my moisturiser and some grinded coffee (1 teaspoon), mix it and apply it around my eyes, drive with sunglasses on, go into the bathroom at the office, take the treatment off and put the make up on, and ta naaaa. good as new!

i have a quite odd looking habit, and that is an exercise you can do while doing your work. i push my lower jaw in front tensing the muscles that connect my neck to my breasts. i repeat it 50 times every day. this way i help my breasts to stay in their place and i can wear them proudly!

this one i know from sarah jessica parker, if anyone wonders how she is all muscles and skinny: i tense my muscles while at my desk, while driving or doing anything, after a while it becomes natural, and it really works. and when it is sunny outseide i sit in the sun for at least 10 mintes. it is great for the skin and for the inner beauty 😉

because i don’t work for a big corporation, but with only a few ladies, we became friends and have cute beauty rituals, so for us beauty is politically correct 🙂 not very often but when we want to celebrate

Well…I work from home so….please copy paste all of the above :-))))
I shave, plock, stare in the mirror for imperfections and nasty hairs…all but work, right?
How a very smart man would say: ” not like a monkey, dog!!! ” :-p

Dirtiest secret… Well, I know, I know smoking is bad, but socializing isn’t, especially with the cute guy who works on a different floor. Therefore, I have to look gorgeous each time there is an opportunity to interact. This means impeccable make-up is mandatory. Basically, each of the 2-3 smoking breaks/day is being precessed by a complete beauty-check-up and I carry with me a purse that hides a beauty case that contains almost everything a woman has in her bathroom. Once it happened to be forgotten (work-related stress, deadlines, the real problems people have at work), so I took a walk to the mall (it was closer than home) and bought make-up, perfume, face and body lotion, etc.. All my money vanished on beauty products. On my way back, I realized how this isn’t about being insecure anymore, but about being crazy. Next day, I gave up smoking.